IIGood
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- Joined
- October 24, 2014
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- City, State
- Arnold, MD
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 03 Explorer; 03 Mustang
A couple weeks ago I picked up a 2003 XLT and just took it for it's inspection today. I knew of some issues it has going into the inspection, but they found more.
Stuff I knew about:
Tires
Exhaust
Parking brake (doesn't work at all)
Additional stuff they found:
Upper control arms
Lower ball joint
Rear rotors
The shop quoted me about $2500 to fix all of that. I know I can do the exhaust (I actually have it on order anyway) and I can change the rotors.
It looked like they wanted about $500, P&L, to do the control arms and ball joint. That's just something I simply cannot do.
I'm wondering if there's any place that I can get those parts for a better price...I'm going to take it to another shop too that I usually go to with my other car and see if they can do any better price-wise for the labor.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Stuff I knew about:
Tires
Exhaust
Parking brake (doesn't work at all)
Additional stuff they found:
Upper control arms
Lower ball joint
Rear rotors
The shop quoted me about $2500 to fix all of that. I know I can do the exhaust (I actually have it on order anyway) and I can change the rotors.
It looked like they wanted about $500, P&L, to do the control arms and ball joint. That's just something I simply cannot do.
I'm wondering if there's any place that I can get those parts for a better price...I'm going to take it to another shop too that I usually go to with my other car and see if they can do any better price-wise for the labor.
Any thoughts? Thanks!